DFID’s Support to PDO-ICZM

DFID Bangladesh has agreed to provide budget support for the development of an IntegratedCoastal Zone Management Program (ICZMP) through the Program Development Office(PDO). The objectives of this support is threefold:

a) to support the broader development goals for the coastal region that will be addressedthrough the PDO;

b) to use DFID Bangladesh’s comparative advantage and experience (specially through theChars Programme) to inform and influence design and development of the ICZM process,particularly in areas of livelihoods, institutional development and private sector linkages; and

c) to identify (initially in conjunction with RNE and GoB) investment opportunities in thecoastal areas.

DFID Bangladesh’s support totals to £600,000 and will covera period of 18 months. An MoU has been signed betweenRoyal Netherlands Embassy and DFID Bangladesh for admin-istration of the fund.

DFIDs fund will be used for four basic approaches:

- support the technical assistance team : a team of nationaland international consultants in the areas of institutional devel-opment, local governance, rural livelihood and private sectordevelopment will be provided.

- stakeholder consultation : It is proposed that this consultationprocess will be more than a series of ‘one off events’ but ratherwill deliver new relationships with communities and institutionsof the coastal region. Specifically, this exercise will enable thePDO to build a new framework, with communities and institutions becoming ‘design partners’in the ICZM design process.

- knowledge management : The application of the principles that highlight the fundamentalneed for new knowledge and continuous learning will be critical to the success of this newapproach. Specifically, the approach needs to be committed to both generating and dissem-inating the knowledge and understanding created by this development process, including thecreation of a database.

- unallocated fund : This is to be applied to activities leading towards the design process forICZM. The principle guidance for use of funds should be that they are used to assess newareas of understanding not currently being addressed.

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IN THIS ISSUE

Attempts & approaches ofdelineation of the coastalzone

Hamida’s family taken out ofpoverty : Patuakhali-BargunaAquaculture ExtensionProject

Sea-turtle Conservation incoastal waters of Bangladesh

Ship-breaking : needs to care

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Coastal Zone Asia Pacific Conference, 200212-16 May, 2002, Bangkok, Thailand

An international conference focusing on the coastal zones of the Asia-Pacific region was organized recent-ly in Bangkok. It brought together more than 200 regional and international researchers, policy-makers,interest groups and communities from 30 countries to address and discuss issues of common concern. Keythemes were: i) sustainable coastal activities; ii) coastal ecosystem management; iii) community/ resourceinteractions; iv) coastalresource economics & sustain-ability; v) coastal area planning;and vi) integrated coastal poli-cies.

A total of 68 oral presentationsin 4 plennary sessions and 10technical sessions were made.About 50 posters were exhibit-ed. A group of participants fromBangladesh attended the CZAP(Photo). During this conference,a workshop emphasizing therole of education was also held.

The PDO-ICZM is one of theconference partners and is thelocal contact of this conference in Bangladesh. The CZAP 2002 conference documents are available at thePDO library. The proceedings of the conference is yet to be released on CD-ROM.

The CZAP 2004 will be held in Brisbane, Australia.

Coastal Livelihoods Analysis On-going

Within the aegis of the PDO-ICZM, a Coastal Livelihoods Analysis (CLA) has been planned. A perceptionsurvey of direct stakeholders is now being carried out involving checklist-based interviews, group work-shops and detailed life stories. A team of two researchers with assistance from senior members of the PDOis engaged in data collection. They are visiting selected areas throughout the coastal belt. The survey isbeing undertaken with help of several partner organizations including projects and NGOs. Among these areCEGIS monitoring team in KhulnaKJDRP area, Sundarban Bio-diver-sity Conservation Project (SBCP)and Shushilan in Sundarban,BRAC in Khulna urban area,Patuakhali-Barguna AquacultureExtension Project (PBAEP) andCODEC in Patuakhali, CharDevelopment and SettlementProject II (CDSPII), Sagarika inNoakhali and NRDS in Lakshmipur.

Partners assist in selection of sur-vey villages and identification ofhouseholds. They also help inorganizing validation workshopsthat take place in each survey areaafter the completion of interviews.The survey team will visit Chakaria, Moheshkhali/Kutubdia and Chittagong in July.

The survey is expected to be completed in the first week of August and an analysis has been planned byend of September 2002.

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Dr. M. Rafiqul Islam, Dr. Shamsul Huda, Dr. M.A. Ghani, Dhali Abdul Qaium, Sayed Iftekhar

Attempts & approaches for delineation of the coastal zone

Background: Definition and delineation of the coastal zone had been a matter of discussion for long time andgenerated different views. When considered from single sector perspective, the matter is simple. For example,Soil Resources Development Institute and Department of Public Health Engineering have their own definitionsand delineations. Attempts to define coastal zone for multisectoral and integrated approach dates back to earlyeighties. Based on geomorphology & hydrology, Coastal Environmental Management Plan for Bangladesh(CEMP), (UN/ESCAP 1988) considered five greater coastal districts (Chittagong, Noakhali, Barisal, Patuakhaliand Khulna) as coastal zone. Reviewing many options, the GoB policy note on ICZM (1999) mentioned "Coastalareas are diverse in function and form: they do not lend themselves well to definition by strict spatial boundaries.In the spirit of focusing attention for management & planning purposes, we may delineate coastal zone in linewith recognized administrative boundaries in Bangladesh and this would include the same 5 greater districts".However, the GoB Policy Note did not define the seaward boundary. The Inception Report of the PDO-ICZM(2001) suggested EEZ boundary as the seaward boundary and 16 sea & estuary facing districts as the landwardboundary of the coastal zone.

Context: However the discussions continued and even rose at the Technical Committee of the ICZMP. Thisattempt is to look at delineation of the coastal zone more critically and subdivide the zone using much wider cri-teria. In setting the criteria to define and delineate the coastal zone and subdividing for management purpose wereviewed the definition, system and criteria used in Alaska, Nicaragua, the Netherlands, Germany, India and SriLanka

Approach: In Bangladesh context, the physical influence of the sea to the land, the tide is important. Tide bringssalt to the land through surface and ground water that influences the agrarian economy of the country. The salineintrusion and effects of the tidal surge extends the vulnerabilities context of the coastal zone even beyond thecoastal opportunity impact due to the usual flat terrain from the sea inward. We have attempted here to definethe landward coastal boundary based on salinity intrusion, tidal interplay and cyclone risks.

Salinity (soil, surface water and ground water) intrusion, cyclone risks and tidal intrusion extent have been ana-lyzed for each of the Upazilas of the southern half of the country. A code list has been prepared to provide weightto the variables of the parameters. A matrix has been prepared following the coded values by Upazilas. TheUpazilas that received value 1 and above is considered to be within the coastal zone. For administrative andmanagement reasons, if an Upazila of a district received value of 1 or above, than the entire district has beenconsidered under coastal zone.

Proposal: A total of 19 districts (Jessore, Narail, Gopalganj in addition to 16 districts defined earlier) are now pro-posed, pending further verification, under the coastal area. EEZ could be the seaward boundary that shall enablebetter management of the deep-sea fishery and the gas exploration.

Following interactions of the land, fresh water and marine environment, coastal area could be stratified into:Exposed coast: Upazilas along the coastline having immediate exposure to and interactions with the resourcesand facing the vulnerabilities contexts. Interior coast: The neighboring Upazilas of the immediate coast, which are not along the coastline but enjoyingspill over of coastal resources and facing vulnerabilities context accordingly. Buffer coast: Upazilas following the interior coastal Upazilas having indirect effect of the coastal resources andvulnerabilities

Exposed and interior coasts together makes the coastal zone.

The coast could also be sub divided following different perspectives and setting criteria: - geo-morphological and hydrological variations (e.g. hydrological regions in the NWMP);- different ecosystems and ecological regions (e.g. Mangrove, old land Ganges basin etc. or Agro-ecological

zones);- vulnerabilities context and risks (e.g. cyclone risk zone, erosion zone etc.);- socio-economic conditions of the coastal livelihood groups (e.g. poor, ultra poor etc.); and- opportunities for the coastal livelihood groups (e.g. shrimp farming, salt farming, ports, EPZ etc.)

The PDO-ICZM will appreciate comments/suggestions from the interested citizens in this regard(pdo@iczmpbd.org).

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Hamida's family taken out of poverty via integrated aquaculture

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Hamida and Forkan Majhi live with their four chil-dren in Ballavpur village, in the Patuakhali Districtof Southern Bangladesh.

They have no farmland, just a homestead with apond, which Forkan inherited from his father.Forkan is a rickshaw puller. In 1999 they becamethe members of a training group for IntegratedPond Farming, after the Department of Fisheries-Danida Patuakhali Barguna Aquaculture ExtensionComponent (PBAEC) field worker, Ms. ShewliChakraborty, asked Ballavpur villagers if they wereinterested in improving the use of their ponds andhomestead poultry and vegetable production.

Hamida went to all six training sessions, but Forkan attended only four, as he had to earn USD .9daily from rickshaw pulling to buy food. The family learned how to use all the space in and aroundthe pond efficiently for fish, poultry and vegetable culture. Before the training they used to stocktoo many fingerlings (finger-size fish) in the pond. Fish growth was very poor due to shortage offood in the pond. Now Hamida will stock only one fingerling per square meter, she knows the ben-efit of sunlight for algae production and that chicken and cow manure can be used to increasenatural fish food formation.

During the last year they harvested 157kg fish from their 480 square meter pond, out of this theyconsumed about 50kg. The rest they sold for USD103. They have 16 ducks and chickens, themanure is used as fertiliser in the pond. Hamida uses the income from egg sales for the educa-tion of the children and for emergencies. She grew vegetables for home consumption and man-aged to sell some extra production for USD14.

To date 68,000 people (one male and one female from 34, 000 households) have received train-ing in this manner and 80% of them have adopted the technology productively. A water surfacearea the equivalent of 1,100ha (27,500 small ponds) has been brought under improved produc-tion since 1999. As a consequence an additional 2,000 tonnes of fish worth in the order of USD2million are produced in the component area annually. The typical production level from homesteadponds prior to PBAEC training in this area is 500Kg/ha. The ponds are small at 400 square metersand often not managed correctly either with too many fish (this example), or too little just for theoccasional sale or harvest for a special occasion. Fish production typically accounted for less than5% of the annual income of the rural poor By following a series of relatively simple techniques theuse of limited inputs available to the poor can be put to best use and productivity increased 5 fold(from 20Kg to 100+Kg per annum for a typical small pond). The integrated farming technologyprovided, helps the farmers to optimise the use of the limited resources available to them andreduces risks by means of diversification of the income generating activities.

When we visited her house, Hamida told us "wehave no chair, where you will sit?" Her husbandwas out pulling the rickshaw. But Mrs. Hamida is avery co-operative and social woman. She knowshow to throw the cast net and showed us somefish from her pond.

Before Forkan used to rent a rickshaw, after sell-ing fish, he added his savings and purchased twosecond-hand rickshaws. He is now earningUSD1.4/day from one rickshaw and he is gettingUSD0.5 rent for the other. Hamida is grateful toShewli Chakraborty, Extension Trainer of PBAECfor her close assistance behind this achievement.

A feature of the Patuakhali Barguna Aquaculture Extension Project, contact :pbaep@citechco.net

Sea turtle conservation in coastal waters of Bangladesh

Sea turtles, the ancient marine creatures are now globally endangered. There are seven species of sea tur-tles roaming in the world's water. All sea turtles are included in the Appendix I of CITES (Convention ofInternational Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) and all species except the flatback arelisted in Appendices I and II of CMS (Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of WildAnimals).

Since time immemorial, sea turtles use to come to nest on the sandybeaches of Bangladesh at different sites along the 710-km coastline fromSundarbans on the southwest and at the entire southeast coast includ-ing the St. Martin's island. Five species of sea turtles have been report-ed to occur in the territorial water of Bangladesh, which are Olive Ridley(Lepidochelys olivacea), green turtle (Chelonia mydas), Hawksbill turtle(Eretmochelys imbricata), Loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) andLeatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea). Compared to the situation in the past, nesting population hasbeen declining day by day due to severe exploitation of eggs and killing of nesting turtles by fishing netsand other threatening activities. Most of the threats are of anthro-pogenic in origin. Now a days, mostly olive ridley and occasionallygreen turtles come to nest in the beaches of Bangladesh. Nesting ofa single individual of Latherback was recorded in 1998. Many sitesare not systematically monitored to confirm nesting turtles.

However, despite having all these adverse conditions, good numbersof sea turtles continue to nest in the coasts of Teknaf Peninsula(southeast) and Sundarbans (southwest) of Bangladesh. Suitablenesting beaches have been severely reduced in number, but sever-al important sites remain, particularly the entire St. Martin Island, Shahparir Dwip in Teknaf Upazila, InaniBeach in Ukhia Upazila, Himchhari Beach and Sonadia island, Kutubdia island in Cox's Bazar Sadar dis-trict, Dimer Char and Dublar Char in Khulna district. It isimportant and urgent that an action plan be developed forthe conservation of sea turtles whatever available inBangladesh waters.

CNRS (Center for Natural Resource Studies) initiatedsea turtle conservation activities in St. Martin's Island andin the Teknaf Peninsula since October 1998 to conservesustainable population of sea turtles in the territorialwaters of Bangladesh. Besides releasing over 35,000 hatchlings through in situ (pro-

tecting sea turtle eggs and hatchlings in nat-ural nests) and ex situ (collecting eggs andincubating in hatchery to hatch and subse-quently released to the sea) hatching mas-sive awareness campaign has been con-ducted in the southeast coastline. CNRSprepared and distributed various awarenessmaterials including leaf lets (Bengali), posters, caps, T-shirts on

sea turtles and placed awareness billboardsand signboards at different public places inthis regard. The experiences and theapproaches of CNRS in conservation of seaturtles have been shared with peers throughattending regional and international symposiaand presenting oral paper and posters at "International Sea Turtle Conservation and Biology Symposium"held in 2000 and 2001 in Orlando, USA and Philadelphia, USA and the second ASEAN Sea TurtleSymposium in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia respectively.

M. Mokhlesur Rahman, Executive Director, Center for Natural Resource Studies (CNRS); contact cnrs@bdmail.net

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Major threats- Beach erosion and alteration- Fishing nets and vessels- Nest predation and stealing- Increasing fishing pressure - Industrial establishment

Achievements so far Year Egg preserved Hatchling

Released to sea Oct'98 - June'99 Only in situ 2114 Jul'99-June'00 11604 7928 Jul'00-June'01 13548 8363 Jul'01- May’02 23188 16764 Grand Total 48340 35169

Conservation sites • St martin • Shaparidwip • Matarbari • Inani • Kutubdia

Call to conserve • Declare pacific ridley nesting beach at St martin as turtle reserve • Plant ipomea/panderus to protect sand dunes from torrential rains • Leave rock free space in the nesting area • Motivate fisher and provide subsidy to repair nets cut to save turtles• Boulder nets to be placed leaving nesting beaches aside • Nest predation by dogs and stealing has to be stopped

Ship Breaking: Needs to Care

The ship breaking activity at Fauzdarhat coast in Chittagong was ini-tiated in 1969. Government planning and administration concerningthis activity is handled by the Mercantile Marine Department. Ministryof Commerce and Industries, Chittagong Port Authority, BIWTA andother Govt. organizations are also dealing with the sectoral issues ofship breaking. Faujdarhat coast is the paradise of ship breaking hav-ing long uniform intertidal zone, low labour cost, existing transportfacilities like Dhaka-Chittagong highway and railways, and more orless stable weather condition. Nationwise total breaking and breakingof very large vessels between 1992-1998 are presented in Figure.

At present there are approximately 50 established ship-breakingyards in this area. Vessels are beached by own propulsion power at high tide and during low tide vessels are lying sta-ble on their flat bottom. The ship is cut down into different parts and winched to the shore at high tide and further largeportion is cut into suitable pieces on the beach for better loading and transportation. The valuable components (e.g.small motors and pumps, navigation equipment, life saving equipment, furniture, electrical cabling, utensil, etc) are dis-mounted and sold to second hand market situated on both the sides of the Dhaka- Chittagong high way. It needs 5-6months to dismantle a large tank.

The ship breaking industry is feeding to the steel mills, steel plate re-manufacturing, asbestos re-manufacturing, lubri-cating oil regeneration and other industries.

This activity has a great importance of our national economy and saving a lot of foreign currency by reducing the importof steel materials. Besides, they pay various taxes and duties such as import duties (7.5%), yard taxes (2.5%), etc. Thesector provides at about US$ 50 million per year to the Govt. Approximately 50,000 people are engaged directly in theship breaking yards. In addition about 2,00000 people are also engaged in different businesses related to ship break-ing.

The ship breaking has a negative impact on our coastal environment. Ship breaking activities are practiced without fol-lowing any rules and regulation and safety measures for the environment as well as for the workers. They dischargeballast water, bilge water and oils in the coastal water and oily film spreads over the water body hampering the photo-synthetic process resulting the ultimate breakdown of food chain. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) and othercrude oils are environmentally harmful and can have detrimental effect on marine environment especially on aquaticbirds. Besides this, the heavy metals, paint materials (PCBs and TBT), radioactive elements, etc., are contaminatingthe water body resulting inhibitory effect on the organisms. Due to pulling the large ship or large parts of a ship in nearshore area, soil losses its normal properties, which accelerates the rate of erosion of the seashore. Asbestos is mincedand made powder and the small fiber blows in the air and animals including man are seriously affected due to inhala-tion of this fiber and suffers lung originated diseases like asthma, bronchitis, lungs cancer, etc. Harmful gases gener-ated during cutting process are responsible for respiratory disease and asthma. All the ship born pollutants enter intothe food chain and are accumulated into the biotic community causing various diseases.

Worker's accident is a normal phenomenon in the ship breakingyards. After cutting a large and heavy plain sheet the workers carryit on shoulders and transferred the sheet from cutting area to stor-age area or loaded on to a truck. During the pulling of iron sheet,many workers face serious accident even leading to death. Thenumbers of accident in case of workers are higher during rainy sea-son because yards don't have any well-constructed roads and arebound to carry the large and heavy sheets on bare foot even dur-ing rain resulting many accidents. Besides these, explosion and fireare disastrous factors and unknown number of workers becomedisable or die during breaking practice every year.

The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has fixed lifetime of a vessel as about 25 years. It is expected that ship-breaking activities along the beaches of the Chittagong coastline will increase during the next few years. So, the shipbreakers will have to make sufficient arrangement for maintaining working environment as well as to protect the coastalenvironment. In this connection, Govt should have monitoring body for preparing the guidelines with a view to take careof ship breaking activities for protection of the resourceful coastal environment and human resources.

Dr Yusuf Sharif Ahmed Khan, University of Chittagong, e-mail- yusuf@abnetbd.com and Sardar M.A. Jabber,jabberctg@yahoo.com

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Institutional & legal study initiated

An in-depth analysis of the institutional and legal mechanisms has been initiated. The objective is to estab-lish procedures of harmonization between institutional actors with supporting legal instruments to contributeto strengthen livelihood of coastal communities. This analysis will be tried-out through case studies of theinstitutional and legal mechanisms around issues of critical importance. Tentatively, the selected issues are:settlement on new lands, shrimp cultivation and disaster management.

The case study on shrimp is on-going. The case study takes into account other relevant studies/activitiesunder the 4th Fisheries Project, Fisheries Futures and Fry Collection Action Plan. Case studies would atleast include: identification of specific management issues and decisions to be taken; identification of theactors and parties involved; analysis of their interactions; identification of the legal and regulatory instru-ments these actors have available and analysis of the way they are used; conclusions on the efficiency andeffectiveness and recommendations for improvement.

Other case studies are now being formulated.

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Coastal

Zone Bangladesh

Administrative Statistics

District 16 64

Upazila/Thana 131 507

Union 1154 4484

Village 14578 87319

Municipalities 60 223

Population

Total (million) 30.6 123.2

Male (million) 15.5 62.7

Female (million) 15.1 60.4

Sex ratio 102.2 103.8

Household

Number (000) 5977 25362

Size 5.1 4.8

Website

The PDO-ICZM website is launched in November, 2001. The website contains an introduction of thePDO-ICZM, inventory of relevant projects, who is who, summary of all PDO-ICZM reports/publica-tions, all copies of the Coast News, proceedings of all TC meetings and many other items.

Your comments on the website will be appreciated.

The address of the site is www.iczmpbangladesh.com

q Small Bangladesh in Bay (Observer,

20/4/02) q Meghna erosion devours 5 villages in

Hatiya (Observer, 29/4/02)

q 22 killed by tigers in last 3 months

(Independent, 2/4/02)

q Bangladesh, India to protect Sundarbans

jointly (Star, 4/4/02)

q Formulate national strategy to promote rainwater harvesting (Star, 2/4/02)

q Contingency plan to deal with oil

pollution (Independent, 5/4/02)

q Govt. decides to set up airport at

Kuakata (Star, 19/4/02)

q Govt. will examine possibility of making

tourism center near Sundarbans (Independent 28/6/02)

q 1080 fishermen village to be set up in

Khulna (Observer, 12/5/02)

q Fishermen of six coastal districts in dire

straits (Independent, 24/5/02)

q Shrimp worth Tk. 30 crore washed away

(Observer 14/6/02) q Oil slicks continue polluting Karnaphuli

(Star, 12/6/02)

q CEPZ herald new era in economy

(Star 26/6/02)

Coast in the Press Population Census 2001

Reducing Vulnerability to Climate Change (RVCC) Project: An Introduction

The Reducing Vulnerability to Climate Change is the first initiative of its kind in Bangladesh. It is a three-year project funded by the Canadian International Development Agencey (CIDA), running from January2002 - March 2005. The RVCC Project will work in six districts in southwest Bangladesh - Bagerhat,Gopalganj, Jessore, Khulna, Narail and Satkhira - through partnerships with local NGOs and communities.The Project goal is to increase capacity of communities in southwest Bangladesh to adapt to the adverseeffects of climate change. The Project purpose is to build local capacity to anticipate and adapt to negativeimpacts stemming from climate change and to advocate on climate change issues.

To date, the RVCC has completed a vulnerability assessment in the southwest region. Partners are cur-rently being recruited.

For additional information : Claudia Schaerer, Project Coordinator, RVCC Project, CARE-Bangladesh, KhulnaField Office, House: 14, Rd: 113, Khalishpur Housing, Khulna, Phone: 041-761250, mobile: 017818995, Email: car-ervcc@khulna.bangla.net

Please note Change of e-mail from pdo@bangla.net to pdo@iczmpbd.org

From this issue, a version in Bangla is also available and circulated. Projects/Initiatives are encour-aged to send news & information relevant for the coastal zone, preferably in English and Banglaboth, for the next issue of Coast News, to be published in October 2002.

About PDO-ICZM

The PDO-ICZM is constituted and guided under the mandate of Inter-Ministerial Steering Committeeand Technical Committee. The Ministry of Water Resources is the lead Ministry.

The objectives have been elaborated as to:- identify a policy and institutional framework and develop a strategy for coastal development;- defining measures to reduce the risk of loss of life and damage of property due to cyclonic storms and tidal surges

and enhancing the capacities of the coastal communities to cope with immediate natural shocks and recover from the losses with dignity;

- develop a strategy for the management of both risks and consequences of disaster, which would include prevention, emergency response and post-disaster recovery;

- initiate a process approach to coastal development that harmonises the policies, programmes, procedures and activities of different GoB institutions, NGOs and donor supported projects active in the coastal zone;

- develop a strategy for enhancing civil society (including the local communities) capabilities and participation in coastal development;

- identify strategies and activities to enhance livelihoods development and reduce vulnerabilities in the coastal zone; and

- develop the knowledge base, improve awareness and establish a monitoring and evaluation system for coastal development.

In the preparatory phase of ICZM, the PDO will operate till December 2004.

For further information please contact:Program Development Office for ICZM Saimon Centre (5th Floor)House 4A, Road 22, Gulshan 1, Dhaka 1212, BangladeshPhone: 8826614, Fax: 880-2-8826614E-mail: pdo@iczmpbd.orgWebsite: www.iczmpbangladesh.com

WARPO OfficeSaimon Centre House 4A, Road 22, Gulshan 1, Dhaka 1212, BangladeshPhone: 8814554/8814556/8814217,Fax: 880-2-8823663E-mail: dg_warpo@bangla.netWebsite: www.warpo.org

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The PDO-ICZM is financed by the Governments of the Netherlands, UK and Bangladesh.This office is under the Ministry of Water Resources

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